Identification and sales tag



Jan. '5 1926. 1,568,595

' N. FREEMAN IDENTIFICATION AND SALES TAG Filed April 2 1923 NA ME (ILOTHING co.

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Patented Jan. 5, 1926. 4 l l UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

NORMAN FREEMAN, or CAMBRIDGE, nassacnusnr'rs.

IDENTIFICATION AND sA Es'rAG.

Application filed April 24, 1923. Serial No. 634,342.

'To all whom it may concern: the particular article. As clearly shown by Be it'known that I, NORMAN FREEMAN, the drawings, this portionbears on its front a citizen of the United States, residing at face certain printedmatter relating to the Cambridge, in the county of Middlesexand article, including the number of the article 5 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have and certain captions indicating the character invented a new and useful Identification of the'data to be supplied, including the and Sales Tag, of which the following is a sale price of the article.

specification. The portion '11 constitutes the-sales slip My invention relates to a combined idenand 1s perforated at 14 to' permit of the 10 tification and sales record tag. convenient filing of the slip after the sale It is customary formerchants to place an is made and after it isseparated from the identification tag on each article placed other portions of the tag. This part 11 on sale. When the article ,is sold, the salescarries on its front face a duplication of the person usually copies the information con- .data appearing on the identification portion Y 15 tained on the identification tag to a sales 10, and in addition has certain other capslip which is usually in triplicate form. The tions andvblank spaces for the entry of other original sales slip is sent to the account'- desired information. On the reverse of the ing department or office, a copy of the slip sales slip is a ledger form which is intended is given to the buyer and the other copy ,for a record of the buyers account when a 20 is retained by the clerk. This system, besale is made on credit.

sides being laborious and time consuming, The parts 12 and 13 constitute, respecvery frequently results in errors, especially tively, the clerks recei t and the buyers rewhen the sales erson or clerk is busy and ceipt. and carry on their front faces properv must therefore. urriedly make out the sales identification data, captions and entry 25 slip and hurriedly copy the data from the blanks, as are clearly shown by the drawing.

' identification tag on t e article sold. Also, These parts are separated from each other when the saleiis on credit, it is necessary when a sale is made, the salesperson giving for the accountin department to make a the receipt 13 to-the buyer and retaining copy of the sales s ip for the buyers ledger the receipt 12.

30 record. It-is obvious and it is the result of -From an inspection of the tag as repre- 5 experience that errors in making out the sented by the drawings it is obvious that sales slip or the ledger record cause dlfiimost ofthe entry blanks may be filled out culties and dissatisfaction. by an oflice clerk or by the salesperson dur- The object of my invention is to obviate ing leisure hours leaving but little for the the disadvantages inherent in the old salesperson to do at the time of the sale. method, and I accomplishthis object bythe When a saleis made the tag is separated at provision of a novel form of tag which also the scoring a, the identification tag 10 re- ,has advantages which will hereinafter apmaining on the article sold. Then the salespear. t v person fills in the appropriate blanks with 40. For a complete understanding of my inhis identification number or letter and the vention reference is to be had to. the followamount of money received, and if a part ing description and the accompanying payment is made, the balance due is noted drawings in which: "in the space providedand ajproper entry is Fig. 1 is a, view of the front of the tag; made on the ledger form on the reverse side and I of the sales slip. portion 11. 5 In the event Fig. 2 is a view'of the rear of the tag. of a cash sale, the ticket including the sales Referring to the drawings in detail, there slip 11 and the receipts 12 and13-is handed is shown-a unitary tag made of manila to the cashier together with the money re-. paper, by preference, and comprising porceived and is stamped paid, the cashier 60 tions 10, 11, 12, and 13, separable at the [separating and retaining the sales slip 11 transverse scored lines-a, b and c. j and returning the receipts'12 and 13 to the The portion 10 constitutes the identificaalesperson who separates them and gives. tion tag andis provided with an aperture the rece1pt'13 to the buyer and retains the through which a string or other means may part 12 for record Thus a complete recpass whereby the tag may be attached to 0rd of the transaction is conveniently and quickly made and the possibility of the making of errors is reduced to a minimum.

The salesperson is relieved of the duty of copying information from the identification tag at the time of. the sale, and the accounting clerk is relieved of the duty of transferring data from the sales slip to the ledger.

From the above description, it is apparent that the invention comprises a combined identification and sales slip arranged in separable portions having duplicate data thereon and blanks and captions whereby the information concerning the sale may be quickly and accurately recorded so that a proper history of the transaction may be had Without the time and labor consum tion inherent'in the old method and without the likelihood of resulting errors.

While I have shown and described. the preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be obvious, in View of my disclosure, that certain changes in the form and characteristics of the tag will suggest themselves and may be made to suit the requirements of certain conditions that might arise, but all such changes are considered as part of my invention as defined by the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is: Y

1. A combined identification tag and sales slip comprising a portion constituting an identification tag for attachment to an article on sale and bearin on its face certain information respecting said article, and a portion detachably secured to said first mentioned portion and to be removed. therefrom at the time of the sale to con- 'stitute a sales slip and bearing duplicate information concerning the article and cap tions indicating the character of informa tion to be entered thereon when the article is sold, said sales slip having a ledger form on its reverse side for use as a record of the buyers'account when the sale is made on credit.

2. A combined identification tag and sales slip as defined by claim 1 having a receipt portion detachably connected to the sales slip.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

-NORMAN FREEMAN. 

